Senior Technical Product Manager - Developer Experience (FTC)

Just Eat Takeaway.com; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global food delivery platform in London is seeking a Senior Technical Product Manager to drive the vision and roadmap for its Developer Experience platform. The role involves collaborating with engineers to create effective solutions, improving the developer experience, and owning the overall product lifecycle. Ideal candidates should have experience in product management, a user-centric approach, and familiarity with agile methodologies.

Qualifications

• Experience in platform or developer-facing products.
• Experience in developer experience including internal developer portals.
• Proven experience in fast-paced incremental product development.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision and roadmap for Developer Experience.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to deliver solutions.
• Lead user research to understand developer needs.

Skills

Product management experience

User focus

Agile methodologies

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

This is a fixed-term role until August 2026.

Ready for a new challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online food delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role:

In Platform Engineering, our vision is to “Amplify creativity through the power of scale”. Our mission is to create the best developer experience to drive innovation, scalability and operational excellence with our internal developer platform. Through simplification, automation, machine learning and AI, we empower our developers to achieve faster deployments, improve reliability, enhance security and continuous innovation; ultimately benefiting our 84m+ customers and the entire JET business.

We are looking for a Senior Technical Product Manager to join our Platform Engineering team. In this role, you will drive the vision, strategy, and roadmap for our Developer Experience platform including our internal developer portal. You will collaborate cross-functionally within the Product and Tech organisation to deliver efficient, scalable solutions that improve reliability and provide a world-class developer experience at JET to enable business success.

As a Senior Technical Product Manager you will bring a data-driven and user centric mindset and be a champion for continuous improvement. You will own the end-to-end product lifecycle work in a technical environment, from ideation to execution, collaborating closely with engineers and a variety of global stakeholders to deliver platform product solutions.This is a high-visibility role with a unique opportunity to shape the engineering culture at JET. You will have a direct line to senior technology leadership and the autonomy to define the future of how hundreds of engineers build, ship and run software.

Developer Experience at JET

As a Senior Technical Product Manager, you will champion our mission to create a world-class Developer Experience (DevEx) for all engineers at JET. You will own the product vision and roadmap for our internal developer portal, the platform that is the cornerstone of our engineering culture.

Working closely with Designers, Engineering and Product teams, you’ll help define the next generation developer experience to turbocharge innovation and drive collaboration across JET. You will be working to reduce cognitive load, abstract complexity and accelerate the entire software delivery lifecycle. Your success will be measured by the adoption of the platform, improved developer satisfaction and the ability of our teams to ship high-quality code faster and more safely than ever before.

Collaborating closely with engineers across the business, you will deeply understand their pain points and workflows to define and prioritise a roadmap that delivers impactful solutions.

These are some of the key ingredients to the role:

• Define and own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Developer Experience, influencing senior engineering and product leadership.
• Use data-driven insights to drive continuous improvements and optimise product decisions through OKRs.
• Lead user research initiatives to deeply understand the needs of developers and platform users, ensuring we solve the right problems.
• Collaborate and partner closely with engineering teams to prioritise and deliver technical solutions that enhance time to market, reliability and developer experience.
• Navigate ambiguity effectively, making informed decisions even when information is incomplete.
• Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure we provide a world class developer experience at JET.
• Own the relationship with key stakeholders to communicate product vision, learnings and roadmaps clearly and consistently, to get buy-in and influence without authority.
• Contribute to our culture of excellence in Product by helping us improve our practices to deliver quickly and with high impact.

What will you bring to the table?

• Product management experience focussed on platform or developer-facing products.
• Experience in developer experience including internal developer portals.
• Razor-sharp user focus is expected to deeply understand user needs, anticipate challenges, and drive solutions that enhance the overall user experience while aligning with business goals.
• Ability to prioritise effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, balancing user needs and business goals.
• Proven experience in fast-paced incremental product development, ideally within technical product development.
• Experience with agile methodologies and a demonstrated ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
• You have a proven track record of delivering large scale programs requiring cross-team collaboration affecting a large part of the organisation.

At JET, this is on the menu:

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.
Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth and about celebrating every aspect of our JETers. Thanks to them we stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

What else are we delivering?

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